and Andy Rose, Analog Devices attended in spirit while stranded in traffic on 128.

Ideas:

Intrigued by Stackoverflow's surgical (and funny) badge program. Dan overcomes the badge limit in Jive by providing 'avatar'-based badges. See his 'up for a Groundswell Award' community here.

Bob talked about Karl Cyr's proactive request for support feedback from Demandware. Great that Jive is listening to 'emerging' customer needs.

Very diverse views and plans for Jive 5. "Users are not social media savvy; too much of a change." "Planning to migrate but looking for more guidance on architectural strategy; yet to be provided." "Launching on 5."

Best way to use the huddle?

Great way to reality check issues, challenges and plans with other practitioners.

Able to act as 'consultants' for each other - bring broad and deep expertise across domains to help each other. (Tech, retail, health, finance)

Useful way to focus and document issues common to 'mid-sized' users to collaborate with Jive on solutions.

Analytics/reporting still not clean for anyone.

Thanks to all for the time and conversation. Look forward to meeting again in October and in Las Vegas (baby) if you're attending.

Hope you all fared well over the weekend. Demandware fared very well and we are looking forward to our informal huddle this Thursday at 4:45 pm in our Burlington offices.

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Our insanely great office manager has asked me to confirm the number of folks who plan to attend. No stress. Just want to make sure we have enough refreshments. Could you take a moment to reply and let me know if you are coming and if you are bringing guests.

If you have any questions, please reply here or feel free to give me a call: 617-957-9257.

Hope we'll have a chance to meet and exchange updates, resources, ideas.

Folks that are interested in a brick and mortar tour are encouraged to come a bit early. We'll show you the creative den for all things on-demand retail.

1. We're looking forward to connecting with other very smart community folks; gee, maybe you have an answer for us. Hopefully we can assist one another. To help forge ahead with introductions hoping you'll take a moment to answer a question as part of your RSVP. Here's the softball: What is one (or more) truly amazing fact about you that 90% of the world doesn't know? (I'll start as part of community best practices).

Was a camera woman on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood

Called the Johnny Appleseed of digital movie production by Newsweek Magazine

2. Demandware is hiring a storm of folks. See the list here. In particular we are looking for a Jive developer to join our engineering team. Also seeking an Oracle DBA and Developer Community Manager. Know anyone? Send them my way!

Hmmmm one amazing fact huh? This isn't amazing but it is something that 90% of people don't know about me. As a child, I appeared in several Woodsy the Owl commercials, doing my part to protect the environment. With that, "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute!"

I'm planning to attend. I can't think of any amazing fact about me, but here's a random one - I once placed fourth in a seed spitting contest at a country fair. Unfortunately, only the first 3 places got ribbons. Looking forward to meeting everyone.

Thanks for putting the notes up. The comments on Jive 5 and use of badges/avatar's was confirming of some of the thoughts we have been kicking around here at McGraw-Hill. We have a "huddle" type event on Tuesday, Sept 6th and will post some notes up as well for our friends up in Boston!